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Shuangxiandaban Formation

Shuangxiandaban Fm


Period: 
Carboniferous

Age Interval: 
C21 (60b), Visean (middle Early Carboniferous)


Province: 
Xizang (Tibet)

Type Locality and Naming

The type section lies ~20 km south of Shuangxiandaban, Duoma District, 380 km northeastern of Rutog County, Tibet. It was named by the Regional Geological Survey Party of Tibetan Bureau of Geology in 1987.


Lithology and Thickness

Limestone. A suite of littoral-neritic dark-gray thin- to moderately thick-bedded limestone, oolitic limestone, micritic limestone and clastic limestone intercalated with clayey limestone. 85−200 m thick.


Lithology Pattern: 
Limestone


Relationships and Distribution

Lower contact

Conformable contact with the underlying Yueyahu Fm

Upper contact

Conformable contact with the overlying Upper Carboniferous Qiatier Gr

Regional extent

Distributed only around Shuangxiandaban, Duoma District, Rutog County.


GeoJSON

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Fossils

Corals Yuanophyllum kansuense, Neozaphrentites sp., Bradyphyllum sp., Siphonophyllia sp. and Caninia sp.; Brachiopods Cleiothyridina cf. submabranacea, Punctospirifer sp., Syringothyris cf. texta, Productus sp., Eochoristites cf. elongata,


Age 

late Datangian (Visean) of Early Carboniferous

Age Span: 

    Beginning stage: 
Visean

    Fraction up in beginning stage: 
0.0

    Beginning date (Ma): 
346.73

    Ending stage: 
Serpukhovian

    Fraction up in the ending stage: 
1.0

    Ending date (Ma):  
323.40

Depositional setting

It is interpreted as a littoral-neritic facies.


Depositional pattern:  


Additional Information


Compiler:  

Fan Yingnian